M. M. Kaye (1908–2004)
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M. M. Kaye was born on August 21, 1908 in Simla, India to British parents. She wrote numerous books during her lifetime including Death Walks in Kashmir, Later than You Think, Shadow of the Moon, Trade Wind, The Far Pavilions, The Sun in the Morning, Golden Afternoon, and Enchanted Evening. She toon meer also wrote and illustrated children's books including The Ordinary Princess. She died on January 29, 2004 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Three Complete Mysteries: Death in Kenya, Death in Zanzibar, Death in Cyprus (1993) 32 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
House of Shade Omnibus: Death in Zanzibar, Death in Andamans, and, Death in Kashmir (1993) 15 exemplaren
[Unknown works] 2 exemplaren
Insel im Sturm 1 exemplaar
Potter Pinner Meadow 1 exemplaar
BLACK BRAMBLE WOOD 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Kaye, Mary Margaret
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Kaye, Mollie
- Geboortedatum
- 1908-08-21
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2004-01-29
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Simla, India
- Plaats van overlijden
- Lavenham, Suffolk, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- India
Kenya
Zanzibar
Egypt
Cyprus
Germany (toon alle 7)
Pevensey, Sussex, England, UK - Beroepen
- historical novelist
mystery writer
illustrator
autobiographer - Relaties
- Kaye, Sir John William (grandfather's cousin)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Colonel James Tod International Award, Maharana Mewar Foundation (2003)
- Korte biografie
- Mary Margaret ("Mollie") Kaye was born in India into a family of military officers and statesmen that had served the British government for many generations. Sir John William Kaye, one of her grandfather's cousins, was Political Secretary of the India Office and the author of the classic histories of the Indian Mutiny and the First Afghan War. Another cousin, Edward Kaye, commanded a battery at the 1857 Siege of Delhi and was later made a Lieutenant General. Mollie Kaye was born in Simla, the summer capital of the Raj, and spent the cool months of the year living in Delhi. In her obituary, the Guardian said, "[S]he was raised by servants, speaking Hindustani before English, while playing around gun emplacements and dodging her ayah to listen to storytellers in the Delhi bazaar. Like Kipling's Kim, she thought herself Indian, 'just a member of a different caste in a land of castes'. " After education at boarding school in England, Mollie returned to India. In 1945, she married Major-General Goff Hamilton of Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides; the couple had two daughters. Her husband's military postings took Mollie all over the world, and she juggled her duties as a mother and an officer's wife with her writing under the pen name M.M. Kaye. Her 3-volume autobiography is called Share of Summer and comprises The Sun In The Morning (1990), Golden Afternoon (1997), and Enchanted Evening (1999).
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- 32
- Ook door
- 7
- Leden
- 8,389
- Populariteit
- #2,874
- Waardering
- 4.1
- Besprekingen
- 216
- ISBNs
- 329
- Talen
- 15
- Favoriet
- 37
DEATH IN KENYA —
In Death in Kenya young Victoria Caryll returns to a family estate in the Kenyan Rift Valley as it recovers from a bloody Mau Mau uprising. Eden Debrett is the man who left her for Alice. But Alice's murder will bring mystery and danger to the lush and romantic locale in this atmospheric M.M. Kaye tale.
DEATH IN ZANZIBAR —
Death in Zanzibar is a sentimental favorite of mine. It has a light and entertaining feel to the overall story and a very likable heroine in Dany Ashton. The characters are colorful and well-defined, and they blend perfectly with the time period. Death in Zanzibar very much feels like it belongs in another era, and takes you there like a time machine.
Lash is a young man-about-town, when young men-about-town were in every mystery. He slowly comes into his own while helping Dany perpetrate a ruse during their trip to Zanzibar and the House of Shade. The mystery of why her hotel room was broken into and her passport stolen deepens when a murder occurs. And then there is more.
Dany is sweet and endearing as she shows old-fashioned bravado during the course of the mystery. She will emerge from her mother's shadow and come into her own just as Lash does. There is, of course, an innocent and growing romance between the two. The reader knows how this will end long before they do, which is part of the old -fashioned charm of the read.
Kaye makes wonderful use of the exotic locale as we see it through the eyes of her heroine, who is also seeing it for the first time. While the beauty of the descriptive prose doesn’t reach the level of Death in Cyprus, it’s still quite lovely — this is M.M. Kaye, after all — and filled with charm because we as readers we are seeing it through the eyes of another.
Death in Zanzibar, while a bit lean, is a very fun and entertainingly old-fashioned mystery, with the values and mores of a bygone era. All of Kaye's mysteries fit this bill and this one is perhaps my sentimental favorite. If you're searching for something intricate and complex, this isn't for you, but if you like your mystery and romance firmly ensconced on the old-fashioned side, you will enjoy this greatly, just as I did.
DEATH IN CYPRUS —
M.M. Kaye set this most enjoyable mystery novel in an enchanting Cyprus that Kaye realized was too good to last. Years later when memories of places like Kyrenia had begun to fade, she made the sun shine one last time on the Cyprus she had seen and experienced in this marvelous mystery-romance.
Those who love the scope and beauty of Kaye's grander, heftier works will find much to love in this old-fashioned mystery and romance set in an exotic locale. M. M. Kaye made sure the sun would never truly set on exotic places such as Port Said, Fayid, Limassol, Nicosia and Kyrenia with Death in Cyprus.
Sunlit garden verandas, dinner tables overlooking a crystal sea of jade and emerald, and the breeze from silver-gray olive trees are described in such a manner you can almost see the former, and taste the latter like a fresh purple grape from the vineyards of Nicosia. The setting is ripe for romance and danger, and Kaye brings them together in Death in Cyprus, one of her finest mysteries. You will feel as though you have enjoyed a vacation fraught with excitement and adventure upon finishing this most charming and old-fashioned mystery. While you could say that of all of her mysteries, it is especially true of Death in Cyprus.
Young and lovely twenty-year-old Amanda Derrington boards the S.S. Orantares and begins to meet the people who will play an important part in her life in ways she could not have imagined. Before she leaves the ship for a stay in beautiful Cyprus a murder occurs which will reach the white-walled houses of Cyprus, shining bright against the sea. Due a cabin mix-up, only Amanda, and Stephen Howard — a painter who carries a gun and may be more than he seems to be — know that the death of Julia Blaine was actually murder, and not a suicide.
The romance of Stephen and Amanda — or Amarantha as he calls her — is a very-old fashioned one born of danger and mystery. It is the kind of romance and mystery that recalls the best of Hitchcock's British films, and very much has that feel. Jealousy and romantic strife all come into play as just beneath the surface smiles, much is going on.
Amanda is befriended by more than one person while having doubts about Stephen, and what his real purpose is in all this. A moonlight kiss only complicates matters, as will a second, unexpected murder, and an attempt on Amanda's life while in Kyrenia.
There is a terrific ending filled with both adventure and romance. It’s unlikely you will guess the killer, or the motive; Kaye has deftly given us the clues, however. The last few moments of Death in Cyprus are fraught with danger and excitement. Just when the reader believes all has been revealed, Kaye pulls the rug out from under the reader’s feet.
A fine and vividly realized assortment of characters enliven Death in Cyprus almost as much as the exquisitely described exotic locales. Grand beauty and old-fashioned romance amidst an ever-growing danger do the rest, making Death in Cyprus, and this entire collection, a memorable mystery romance rich and evocative of another time and place, and a different style of writing.… (meer)